Trump's relationship with the media.

I heard a piece on CBC last night about Trump using the press as a prop during his speeches - pointing at them and telling the crowd they were against him and lying to them.

CNN decided over the weekend to no longer run white house press conferences live because they want corroboration before running stuff that might be lies (I posted that piece in the Trump Administration thread)

Now two journalists - one from Vocativ and one from RT America - have been arrested and charged with felony riot charges for covering the inauguration. One of them had his camera taken by police.

The Trump White House not only leaks like crazy. It casually leaks the most intimate and humiliating details about the President - hurt feelings, ego injury, childlike behavior, self-destructive rages over tweets, media failure to credit his own grandiosity. We have simply never seen this level of leaking, with this little respect for the President's dignity or reputation, this early.

I can't imagine that this will make relations between Trump and the press any more cordial.

I endured Harper to only see him replaced with Trudeau. Nice smile but same misinformation and half truths in support of the same agenda. I also live in BC and frankly Trump will have to go a ways before he reaches Clark's level of deliberate deceit in pursuit of hoodwinking the people into ignoring the theft of the public purse being committed by their corporate buddies.

Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five-page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, RL Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for the rest of her life.

FBI search and arrest warrant applications unveil irresponsible behavior by the Intercept's reporters and editors which neglected all operational security trade-craft that might have prevented the revealing of the source..."

Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five-page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, RL Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for the rest of her life.

FBI search and arrest warrant applications unveil irresponsible behavior by the Intercept's reporters and editors which neglected all operational security trade-craft that might have prevented the revealing of the source..."

I doubt she'll be jailed for the rest of her life or anything close to that. Meanwhile no comment on the substance of the Intercept piece?

Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five-page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, RL Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for the rest of her life.

From the Moon of alabama website:

"Only some 5% of the pages Snowden allegedly acquired and gave to reporters have been published."

I found this article on Slate interesting. It examines "Fox & Friends", the morning show on Fox News, and apparently Trump's fave. The lede:

Justin Peters wrote:

It was 6:07 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, and the three hosts of Fox & Friends were talking football—specifically, how much better the NFL was before Colin Kaepernick went and mucked things up. Just like its most prominent viewer, Fox News’ morning show is obsessed these days with the national anthem protests that Kaepernick ignited. “Someone who knows more about football than the average bear would be former Bear coach Mike Ditka, and he has this to say about what is going on in football right now,” said a grinning Steve Doocy, before playing a clip of Ditka’s insane claim that America has been oppression-free for 100 years and that dissenters should go play football in some other country.

“And Hillary Clinton supports the players taking a knee,” noted Brian Kilmeade, raising his hands for emphasis.“By the way, what a nightmare for coaches. They need to focus on the game. Their jobs are on the line, and everyone’s divided.”

“It’s interesting, though. The people who are fighting because of the division in our country are dividing the country,” Ainsley Earhardt chimed in after some cross-talk. “Football will never be the same. I just want to turn on the TV and watch a game, you know? And eat popcorn and pizza.”

And then came the inevitable contribution from the fourth voice in Fox & Friends’ early-morning chorus: “Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!” tweeted President Trump. It was 6:13 a.m.